The professional golfer Phil Mickelson has agreed to forfeit nearly $1 million that the Securities and Exchange Commission said was unfairly earned on a tip from an insider trading scheme conducted by a former corporate director and a professional...

Daniel Berger is trying to stay patient. With everything that's at stake for the PGA Tour rookie this week, that's no easy task.Berger opened the BMW Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest — the third leg of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup...

Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy aside here's the Pioneer Press list of top golfers in their 20s:
Jason Day
Bio: The 27-year-old Aussie has been a professional since 2006. His father died before Day was a teenager, and golf provided him an outlet. Day's...

Nick Grubnich doesn't want to look back at his life with regrets.
That's why he's going to give professional golf a try.
He will start the qualification process for the Web.com Tour starting in September. There are four stages of qualifying for the...

Phil Mickelson has pushed aside the distraction of a federal probe to warm up for the U.S. Open at this week's FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tennessee.
Mickelson has stayed committed to his golf even as reports swirled last week that U.S....

Phil Mickelson on Saturday responded to claims that he is part of an insider trading investigation by saying he did “absolutely nothing wrong.”
The five-time PGA major winner also said he is cooperating in the probe that is being conducted by the FBI and...

In the often taciturn realm of professional athletes, Rory McIlroy always has been markedly patient and candid with the media.
But it seems the golfer from Northern Ireland has reached his limit when it comes to discussing his split last week with Danish...

Seventy-two young male and female high school golfers from Districts 203 and 204 and Benet Academy had the opportunity to play 18 holes against each other on Tuesday, on one of the finest private courses in Northern Illinois, in celebration of a...

May 3 has been a difficult day for golfer Tiger Woods for some time.
But the anniversary of the death of Earl Woods was even harder this past Sunday.
The loss of his father, mentor and first coach coincided with the end of Tiger Woods’ high-profile...

Riding the momentum of a solid showing at the Masters, Tiger Woods has committed to play in at least five more tournaments through early August.
Woods tweeted on Wednesday that he will be at the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Memorial Tournament, the...

Two weeks ago, Tiger Woods walked away from the Masters without specifying when he might return to the PGA Tour.
Now it seems he will play in Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament in June.
Nicklaus told reporters that Woods revealed his plans during a...

— Oliver Goss came to Congressional Country Club earlier this week looking to play in his second PGA Tour event at the Quicken Loans National. As things have transpired for the 20-year-old Australian, the hardest part was getting in the clubhouse door.
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A tumultuous week behind him, Phil Mickelson is turning his attention to the upcoming U.S. Open.
Mickelson planned to spend his off days -- Monday and Tuesday -- at Pinehurst, where he'll dial in the course and work on his game.
"I need to putt a little...

Rory McIlroy tweaked his back during last week's BMW PGA Championship but caught fire through the weekend to win the tournament.
Now, perhaps, his luck with injuries has run out.
After feeling pain in his left knee, McIlroy got off to a horrendous start...

Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan highlight a pack of golfers chasing leader Paul Casey through the first round of the Memorial Tournament on Thursday.
It was 1976 when Jack Nicklaus founded the tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club, an Ohio course he...

— When Tiger Woods broke a 2 - 1/2 year drought without an official PGA Tour victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, it didn't come down to a crucial putt as in 2009. Woods, much like he did when he was the most dominant player on the...